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April 19, 2005
some good news
Text from an ad for Parents, The Anti-Drug in the early pages of Part A of today's Washington Post. The ad shows a picture of a hand holding a joint:
Remember that joint some of us "experimented" with?
Well, it's twice as strong today.
YEAH!!!
We are studying the failed anti-drug campaigns of the 80's in my Persuasion class, and it is evident that nothing has changed since. I'm told millions of dollars are spent annually on poorly-executed health campaigns where no persuasion/communication expert is consulted, or even a psychologist, drug counselor, or marketing specialist. The anti drug campaigns are mainly just some kind of political tool to spend money to look good. Just how effective is an ad meant to persuade me or my children to stop using drugs when it tells me drugs are better than they used to be? The gay equivalent to this failed ad would be something like:
You know those hits of E you took in the mid-90's?
Well honey, they pack an even bigger punch today.
YEAH!!!
Posted by jimbo at April 19, 2005 10:30 AM
Comments
"Well honey, they pack an even bigger punch today."
Except when they don't, which is almost always.
Ecstasy has famously lost it's punch, ask around.
Hell, in the UK, it sells for under 5 pounds now.
Posted by: Joe.My.God. at April 19, 2005 11:14 AM
And I was so hoping for a remake of Reefer Madness...
Posted by: wyocwby at April 19, 2005 11:19 AM
mmmm more powerfull drugs!
South Park did a really good spoof of the "Harmless" adds a while back, it's so true to. Parents should just talk to there kids rather then try and scare them with no rational reason.
Posted by: Scott at April 19, 2005 12:03 PM
I understood the campaign to mean "Just say no more!"
But since I have NEVER taken any drugs or know anyone who has....this whole post is lost on me.
Posted by: Seamus at April 19, 2005 12:34 PM
Well that is no surprise- everything is bigger than they were in the 1980s- supersized meals, SUVS, and my stomach are some prime examples.
Posted by: homer at April 19, 2005 1:39 PM
Next we'll be hearing abstinence only sex educators saying "Penises are twice as big as they used to be, and girls get split in two!"
Posted by: copperred at April 19, 2005 2:04 PM
NEW YORK, April 12 (UPI) -- The remake of the 1936 propaganda film "Reefer Madness" has modern, post-Sept. 11 relevance to mass paranoia, cast member Alan Cumming says.
Cumming plays a mysterious stranger who comes to a town to educate PTA members about the deadly craze of marijuana permeating society.
He agrees with director Andy Fickman, who adapted his stage version for television that the theme is similar to the culture of fear embodied by the government's color-coded terror advisories after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the New York Daily News said.
The original film was released at a time when the Nazis were on the path that would lead to World War II. The United States was in isolationist mode, but "Reefer Madness" manufactured a menace for them to worry about.
"What made the original film so funny", said Cumming, "was the ridiculousness of it, this authority figure pontificating on the so-called dangers around us. Now we're actually living that."
"Reefer Madness" premiers Saturday night on Showtime. http://www.reefermadness.org/main.html
Posted by: David at April 19, 2005 3:55 PM
You're also supporting twice as many terrorists with every puff!
Posted by: chrisafer at April 19, 2005 4:14 PM
Try the Thai e.
Hello.
Posted by: sean at April 19, 2005 7:02 PM